@article{1478575,
      recid = {1478575},
      author = {Manion, Melanie, },
      title = {Corruption by Design : Building Clean Government in  Mainland China and Hong Kong /},
      pages = {1 online resource (295 p.)},
      abstract = {This book contrasts experiences of mainland China and Hong  Kong to explore the pressing question of how governments  can transform a culture of widespread corruption to one of  clean government. Melanie Manion examines Hong Kong as the  best example of the possibility of reform. Within a few  years it achieved a spectacularly successful conversion to  clean government. Mainland China illustrates the difficulty  of reform. Despite more than two decades of anticorruption  reform, corruption in China continues to spread essentially  unabated. The book argues that where corruption is already  commonplace, the context in which officials and ordinary  citizens make choices to transact corruptly (or not) is  crucially different from that in which corrupt practices  are uncommon. A central feature of this difference is the  role of beliefs about the prevalence of corruption and the  reliability of government as an enforcer of rules  ostensibly constraining official venality. Anticorruption  reform in a setting of widespread corruption is a problem  not only of reducing corrupt payoffs, but also of changing  broadly shared expectations of venality. The book explores  differences in institutional design choices about  anticorruption agencies, appropriate incentive structures,  and underlying constitutional designs that contribute to  the disparate outcomes in Hong Kong and mainland China.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478575},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674040519},
}